Wank, a German ski jumper, had his NBC chyron digitally altered by Twitter’s Jimbo Loony, one among those greatly amused by how certain foreign athlete names—like that of Semen Pavlichenko, a Russian luge competitor—sound to an English speaker.

It probably says something about the zaniness of the Sochi’s 2014 Winter Games, which have collected countless misdirected online complaints, that anyone was willing to take this gag at face value. But a healthy dose of wishful thinking didn’t hurt.